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- From: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche)
- Subject: Re: I want to learn engineering
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.083342.11028@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>
- Organization: MetaPro Systems, Perth, Western Australia
- References: <1h0e5nINN29n@access.usask.ca> <BzL365.CKy@ais.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 08:33:42 GMT
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- In <BzL365.CKy@ais.org> danr@ais.org (Daniel Romanchik) writes:
-
- >In article <1h0e5nINN29n@access.usask.ca> choy@skorpio.usask.ca (I am a terminator.) writes:
- >>The present system does not make it easy to learn engineering on my own.
- >>Textbooks are hard to understand. They are incomplete. They are very
- >>hard to work with. The education I got doesn't do justice to engineering.
- >>
- >>Education isn't merely the basic undergraduate training. More advanced
- >>reference material let's me down too.
-
- > Welcome to the real world of engineering again. The only way to
- >learn engineering is by doing it. The university can only point you
- >in the right direction. You've got to actually design something
- >before you can call yourself an engineer.
-
- And the best thing that Unix can teach you is that you know
- *nothing* -- well comparatively.
-
- Depending on your chosen field, the you can gain much more
- from the experience of others (and not just engineers; also
- technicians, tradespeople and even unskilled labourers) is
- more valuable to gain a deep understanding of what you
- working on. Keep an open mind and always listen. You'll be
- told a lot of crap (just like at University/College/Tech).
- Hopefully, with time you'll be able to distinguish that from
- the important stuff.
-
- Good luck.
- --
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